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Show 2 POUNDS ALFALFA SEED TO ACRE , -I Farmer of Canada Gets Goid Sbwi4 from Surprisingly Small Quantity of Seed. t "" ' ' ' That alfalfa will grow prolific j on seeding of only two pounds to the acre is the opinion of L. A. j ' Felger, manager of the Ohio-Alberta Farms Co., a practical dry-I dry-I farmer operating a very large acreage eight miles south of Lethbridge, Alberta. The use of this surprisingly small quantity of seed is in marked contrast to the opinions of many experts who have been making a study of alfalfa for many years, in that opinions as to the quantity of seed to be sown have varied from 13 to 20 pounds to the acre. , Mr. Felger has an excellent j stand of 12 acres, which was i seeded with only four pounds to the acre in May, 1911, on fall plowing that had been cropped the year before. His plowing was down to a depth of five and ; a half to six inches, and he be- p lieves that if ho had plowed deep- 1 er he would have required less flj seed. His seed bed was well pre- i ' pared and he used a 2-horse cul tivator four times, and harrowed early in the spring. He inoculated inoculat-ed the soil with soil from a neighboring alfalfa field, and I despite the fact that it was a se vere winter he noted no loss through winter killing. He ex- j pects his field will yield two and j " possibly three cuttings, but he I plans to use a portion of the field I in raising seed. To prove the success of his theory of planting in rows and 'I using only a small quantity of AW8IW"w"Beed'tto,securoiagDod-Btantlf'Mr " Felger has sent to the Lethbridge headquarters of the International Dry-Farming Congress a sample dug up on May 22nd, which ; shows a 15-in :h stand and a root "? " system of 31 inches before it was cut with a knife, and it is , plainly shown tljat the root was still longer. "I am going to seed only two pounds to the acre next year," says Mr. Felger. "I find that : four pounds makes too thick a stand, and I am going to stop up all the holes of my drill except two and thus reduce the amount of seed used, and at the same time mix my seed with ground feed. I sowed some alfalfa j where I used every hole of the j drill and it required 13 pounds to the acre. This stand was al- ' together too thick and not as 1 good in its first growth as the j field of 12 acres which I sowed i with only four pounds." |